UF Professor John Thompson wins Abel Prize of Mathematics
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Mar. 27, 2008University leaders came together to honor a UF mathematics professor Thursday for winning an award deemed the "Nobel Prize of mathematics."
University leaders came together to honor a UF mathematics professor Thursday for winning an award deemed the "Nobel Prize of mathematics."
All but four courses in UF's sport and fitness program are being snuffed out next fall, and many graduate students who teach the classes will have to find other means of paying tuition next semester.
For UF employees trying to kick their smoking habit, UF now offers a free program to help them quit.
When doors opened for Bob Saget's stand-up Wednesday night, fans didn't just wait in line.
With a quick step and determined look, Nicole Bauman presented a ticket to a security guard monitoring the Pugh Hall Ocora Room on Wednesday morning.
After collecting faculty feedback this week, the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean search committee will meet to make its final recommendation to the provost today.
For years, Florida's public universities have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Board of Governors at its request, but Florida State University will not comply this year with a system one lawmaker deemed "soft extortion."
A UF student senator called for the resignation of another senator at a meeting Tuesday night, charging that he does not live in the district to which he was appointed.
During a Student Senate meeting marked by division and bickering between parties, senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences expressed heated disapproval of decisions that have kept them out of all Senate committees.
The results from SFCC's Student Government elections will be determined tonight, but one decision is set in stone: There will be no runoff election.
Gator Stompin', the traditional end-of-semester pub crawl, may not be the drunken fest students would imagine.
State Sen. Evelyn Lynn, chairwoman of the Higher Education Appropriations Committee, relinquished pay for her post at Florida State University on Monday.
Bob Saget doesn't think he'll drop the "f-bomb" too much at the O'Connell Center tonight.
Yom huledet same'ach - that's "happy birthday," for those who don't speak Hebrew.
Beate Sirota Gordon was only 22 when Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered her to draft the women's rights section of the democratic Japanese constitution.
SFCC started its transition to replace its e-mail system with Google's Gmail on March 18, while UF is still working on a switch of its own.
Whether it's managing hospital ventilators or giving breathing therapy, respiratory care practitioners are in high demand locally.
When Debra Walker King came to UF in 1994, she said she was a "young kid on the block," watching the wheels of administration turn as a new English professor.
Those still hoping to attend former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Wednesday speech are out of luck.
About 200 people watched 36 modern-day cowboys in pursuit of cattle and prizes on Saturday for UF's third-annual Ropin' in the Swamp competition.